Encounter

Encounter

Ramzi Albert Rihani

 

Surrounded by students with faraway looks

“Don’t fear the unknown” the teacher said

It is a place of discovery

With comfort, you get complacent

With encounter, you approach celestial spheres

 

Abstract makes you think

Mystery makes you dream

Like colors added to a grey winter sky

They create spring in the middle of a desert

 

Hundred years later, the pupils become gurus

Teaching their grandparents what heaven’s like

Years of searching 

A minute of enlightenment

A cycle of life, a rhythm never-ending

 

 

 

Born to a literary family of poets, writers, novelists, and critics, Ramzi Albert Rihani is a Lebanese-American writer who has been writing and publishing poetry for several years. His work has appeared in several publications in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Romania, South Africa, China and India, including Chronogram magazine, Cacti Fur Journal, Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, Poetry Potion, The Piker Press, Active Muse, Ephemeral Elegies, Impspired, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, W-Poesis Literary Journal, Valiant Scribe Literary Journal, Flora Fiction Quarterly, The Literary Yard, and The Silent Journey Anthology. He is a published music critic. He wrote and published a travel book, The Other Color – a Trip Around the World in Six Months (FMA Press), and three plays, two of which were produced on stage. Ramzi has lived in the Washington, DC, area most of his life.